F2Pool, a Chinese mining pool also referred to as Discus Fish, which holds the largest share of the Bitcoin network’s hashrate at 26%, has been experiencing a series of extreme DDoS attacks.

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F2Pool Suffers from Series of DDoS Attacks
F2Pool, a Chinese mining pool also referred to as Discus Fish, which holds the largest share of the Bitcoin
network’s hashrate at 26%, has been experiencing a series of extreme DDoS attacks.
The attacks began to target the F2PoolCT Bitcoin mining pool almost immediately after the F2Pool team announced
their decision to “test” Bitcoin Classic by launching a subpool in which miners can mine Bitcoin Classic blocks.
Peter Todd and other Bitcoin experts requested the hackers and the individuals behind the series of DDoS attacks to
terminate them immediately, as they are delaying the mining pools and companies to reach a consensus on the
block size debate.
Whomever is DoS attacking f2pool please stop. You’re only making it harder to come to
consensus.https://t.co/GoicJNhcMY
— Peter Todd (@petertoddbtc) February 25, 2016

2. Behind the DDoS attack
Some bitcoin enthusiasts and
supporters of Bitcoin Classic claim
that the attacks have been directed
and paid for by Bitcoin Core supporters, and its developers, to forcefully cause Bitcoin Classic nodes to become
inoperable.
A hacker, or a hacking group, that goes by the online alias botneko-chan stated on a forum that they have been paid
to launch professional DDoS attacks on F2Pool’s Bitcoin Classic subpools.
“Just paid, I’m professional ddoser lol. Don’t know why someone want to bring it down. Maybe increasing block size
will decrease miners profit? I’m using bitcoin a lot but don’t care about it’spolitics too much, XT had too fast block
size grow rate which looks unrealistic to me. I thinkBIP100 is okay since it allows voting and also bitcoin unlimited
also seems like good idea and looks simpler for me. If classic will fork to 2mb blocksize and it would be not enough
then what? Next hard fork? I think protocol should support miner voting by design,” the hacker himself said on
Reddit.
Jonathan Toomim, the leading developer and founder of Bitcoin Classic, further explained that Chinese miners and
mining pools are quite skeptical towards Bitcoin Classic as they prefer not to change pool information on their
hardware to adopt the 2 megabyte hard fork.
“Actual miners are lazy,” said
Toomim. “They don’t like to change
pool information on their hardware
very often, because that would
require logging into each of your
machines and copy-pasting in new data to a web form and clicking submit. A typical mining farm will have hundreds
to tens of thousands of these machines. The approach that Slush is taking is different. Rather than requiring users to
reconfigure each machine, Slush is giving users a way to switch all of their hardware between Classic and Core by
clicking on one button on Slush’s website. This should result in much faster changes.”
As of now, leading bitcoin mining pools, including Antpool, F2Pool and BitFury, are supporting the roadmap and
development of the Bitcoin Core development team.

3. Re-posted from www.cointelegraph.com March 2, 2016 by Joseph Young
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